Author: Notgo Gentle

Every month this year has brought one off or ‘special’ expenses. April was higher than usual. We moved one of our parents from abroad to come live w...

April brought college decisions – and a campus visit to California where our son will be going this fall. This incurred some travel expenses but everybody...

March was a special month as the 2018 year bonus from my previous job paid out…netting us $60k. In addition, the severance payments continued so that adde...

2019 brought many changes …quickly and some unexpected. Crossing $3MM in net worth, a kid headed to college and a decision to leave a high paying job and ...

The numbers are coming together for 2018. Here’s a snapshot of what our tax return looks like. Numbers are rounded for some anonymity. This is a combinati...

The month of February saw steady progress. I put some effort in consolidating my 401k accounts but apart from that, the portfolio was free to keep reinvesting i...

,The markets recovered nicely in January – what a relief. However it is still unsettling to see such wild and unexplained swings. That said, my attention ...

December was a quiet month at home where we took time off as a family. It was anything but quiet in the financial markets as the stocks went on a wild ride lead...